史学
shǐ xué
historiography
history (史) + study (学) = historiography
史 originally depicted an official hand-holding a record, the keeper of written annals. Pair that with 学, the act of a child absorbing knowledge under a roof, and you get the formal study of history itself.
她在大学学的是史学。
tā zài dà xué xué de shì shǐ xué。
what she studied at university was historiography.
这本书讨论了史学的基本方法。
zhè běn shū tǎo lùn le shǐ xué de jī běn fāng fǎ。
this book discusses the basic methods of historiography.